Redis on Azure for production

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In this video, deploy a Redis instance on Microsoft Azure by using the Azure Portal. Tour the various features available in the premium tier, deployed here with the intention to use this Redis instance for integration testing or production use. Select clustering and multiple shards for both high availability and scaled out capacity, as well as a persistence option as per your application design requirements.

- [Instructor] To deploy an Azure Redis Cache…of production requires consideration…for some of the Premium features.…In this case, I'll go to the Redis Cache blade.…And there we see the cache we've previously deployed.…It's currently running,…with the maximum size of 250 megabyte,…and the SKU here says Basic.…Now we're going to deploy an Azure Redis Cache…of the Premium tier.…The SKU Premium, with some additional information.…I'll click Add at the top,…and again,…we have to have a unique DNS name for our cache.…

So I'll call this one learnazureredis premium.…I'll use the existing subscription Learn Azure,…pay as you go.…I'll use the existing resource group…that we created previously,…Learn_Redis.…And again, you have to be very certain…where your applications are relative…to your Azure Redis Cache deployment.…The location makes a lot of difference…in terms of latency.…And you would typically want to keep the latency…as low as practically possible,…so that your applications can get…the best possible performance…from their Redis cache connections.…

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11/16/2017

Microsoft Azure Redis is based on the popular open-source Redis cache. It gives you access to a secure, dedicated Redis cache, managed by Microsoft and accessible from any application within Azure and beyond. In this course, follow along as instructor Anton Delsink helps you get started with Microsoft Azure Redis, familiarizes you with the various data structures in Redis, and explains how to use those data structures from C#. Anton demonstrates how to deploy Redis; connect with Redis CLI and C# clients; work with data types, lists, sets, and hashes; use Redis with ASP.NET web apps; and more.